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helix helix news documentation github matrix download a post modern text editor install now multiple selections multiple cursors as a core editing primitive inspired by kakoune commands manipulate selections which allows concurrent code editing tree sitter integration tree sitter produces error tolerant and robust syntax trees which enables better syntax highlighting indent calculation and code navigation powerful code manipulation navigate and select functions classes comments etc and select syntax tree nodes instead of plain text language server support language specific auto completion goto definition documentation diagnostics and other ide features with no additional configuration built in rust for the terminal no electron no vimscript no javascript use it over ssh tmux or a plain terminal your laptop battery life will thank you modern builtin features fuzzy finder to jump to files and symbols project wide search beautiful themes auto closing bracket pairs surround integration and more frequent questions post modern it s a joke if neovim is the modern vim then helix is post modern is it any good yes are there plans for a gui frontend eventually yes we d like to prototype a webgpu based alternative frontend see the discussion on github what about plugins while there is currently no plugin system available we do intend to eventually have one but this will take some time more discussion here how does it differ from kakoune mainly by having more things built in kakoune is composable by design relying on external tooling to manage splits and provide language server support helix instead chooses to integrate more we also use tree sitter for highlighting and code analysis how does it differ from vim by starting from scratch we were able to learn from our experience with vim and make some breaking changes the result is a much smaller codebase and a modern set of defaults it s easier to get started if you ve never used a modal editor before and there s much less fiddling with config files support contribute code on github discuss the project on matrix sponsor development on opencollective